Quotes by Historians - Page 3

A fair day's wages for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of government.
Thomas Carlyle
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
Carl Sandburg
All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only upon the full use of our creative imagination.
Ruth Ross
We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre any day of the week that we want to give them their head.
Jacob Bronowski
By union the smallest states thrive by discord the greatest are destroyed.
Sallust
No one can bar the road to truth and to advance its cause I'm ready to accept even death.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
No one means all he says and yet very few say all they mean.
Henry Adams
Trust thyself only and another shall not betray thee.
Thomas Fuller
True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire Whose wishes soon as granted fly It liveth not in fierce desire.
Sir Walter Scott
Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
Livy
Treachery though at first very cautious in the end betrays itself.
Livy
Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
Arthur Helps
Tomorrow never yet On any human being rose or set.
William Marsden
Here's to your good health and your family's good health and may you all live long and prosper.
Washington Irving
Better late than never.
Livy
I cannot do everything but still I can do something and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
Edward Everett Hale
Those people work more wisely who seek to achieve good in their own small corner of the world ... than those who are forever thinking that life is in vain unless one can ... do big things.
Herbert Butterfield
Progress is the sum of small victories won by individual human beings.
Bruce Catton
What a day may bring a day may take away.
Thomas Fuller
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
H.G.Wells
Longevity conquers scandal every time.
Shelby Foote
It is better to have a hen tomorrow than an egg today.
Thomas Fuller
We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own but they probably are.
James Harvey Robinson
Data data everywhere but not a thought to think.
Theodore Roszak
The final greatness of the presidency lies in the truth that it is not just an office of incredible power but a breeding ground of indestructible myth.
Clinton Rossiter
An eminent American is reported to have said to friends who wished to put him forward 'Gentlemen let there be no mistake. I should make a good president but a very bad candidate.'
James Bryce
Do today's duty fight today's temptation do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see and could not understand if you saw them.
Charles Kingsley
The past is a bucket of ashes so live not in your yesterdays nor just for tomorrow but in the here and now.
Carl Sandburg
The present is the living sum-total of the whole past.
Thomas Carlyle
Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.
Will Durant
The past is never completely lost khowever extensive the devastation. Your sorrows are the bricks and mortar of a magnificent temple. What you are today and what you will be tomorrow are because of what you have been.
Gordon Wright
The past is but the beginning of a beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
H.G.Wells
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past.
André Maurois
The Golden Age was never the present Age.
Thomas Fuller
The future is the shape of things to come.
H.G.Wells
The future is hope!
John Fiske
To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may afterwards turn out groundless you lost the good that lay within your grasp.
Francesco Guicciardini
He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.
Thomas Fuller
Neither in the life of the individual nor in that of mankind is it desirable to know the future.
Jakob Burckhardt
Things forbidden have a secret charm.
Tacitus
A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams
Teaching is not a lost art but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Jacques Barzun
The finer impulse of our nature.
Friedrich von Schiller
Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste and amuses himself by applying it triumphantly wherever he travels.
Henry Adams
Those who have few things to attend to are great babblers for the less men think the more they talk.
Charles Montesquieu
Talent is always conscious of its own abundance and does not object to sharing.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Of a truth men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
Thomas Carlyle
Whence are thy beams O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty the stars hide themselves in the sky the moon cold and pale sinks in the western wave. But thou thyself movest alone.
James MacPherson
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.
Charles Montesquieu
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man but for one man who can stand prosperity there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Thomas Carlyle
I cannot do everything but still I can do something and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
Edward Everett Hale
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Herodotus
He that would have fruit must climb the tree.
Thomas Fuller
All great reforms require one to dare a lot to win a little.
William L. O'Neill
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
Sallust
Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement.
Thomas N. Carruther
The real difference between men is energy.
Thomas Fuller
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Sir William Osier
The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
Oswald Spengler